Description: Reconstructed church at Schoenbrunn Mission Village, New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, ca. 1970-1979. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00660
Subjects: Churches--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads:"Theo E. Dotts 939 Logan Street New Phila. Ohio. Horseshoe curve scene on Route 39 1 1/2 miles north of Roswell O. Tus. Co." Picture depicts a road forming a horseshoe. Bare trees line the road. A small house is at the base of a hill. New Philadelphia is the county seat of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. John Knisely established the community in 1804. Residents named the town after Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Once formed in 1804, New Philadelphia grew quickly, having over one thousand residents in 1846. One of the principal reasons for this quick growth was New Philadelphia's location on the Ohio and Erie Canal, making the community an important trading center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F01_029_001
Subjects: New Philadelphia (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works.; New Philadelphia (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photographic reproduction of an engraving is a portrait of John A. Bingham, who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1855 to 1863 and again from 1865 to 1873. The image appears to be one of several portraits of government officials; portions of oval frames are visible to the lower right and left of Bingham’s portrait. Header text on the page reads: “Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District…” The caption underneath Bingham’s portrait identifies him as “Bingham, Ohio.” Likely the portraits are included in an official government directory or record. Bingham, an early advocate of emancipation, is credited with drafting the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He also served as a prosecutor during the trial of the individuals charged with conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives chose Bingham as one of seven “managers” to lead impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson in 1868. Bingham was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, the son of Hugh Bingham and Ester Bailey Bingham. The elder Bingham was a prosperous artisan who was active in local politics. When John Bingham was twelve years old, his mother died, and he went to live with his uncle, Thomas Bingham, in Cadiz, Ohio. He worked as a printer’s apprentice for two years, then attended Franklin College (New Athens, Ohio), studied law, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1840. He established a law practice in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, but later returned to Cadiz, where he married his first cousin, Amanda Bingham, in 1844. Active in local politics, Bingham originally was a member of the Whig Party. In 1846, Tuscarawas County voters elected him to the office of prosecuting attorney, a position he held until 1849. Five years later he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Whig and was re-elected as a Republican for three more consecutive terms (serving from 1855 to 1863). He unsuccessfully ran for re-election to the House in 1862. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him judge-advocate of the Union Army with the rank of major in 1864. That fall Bingham defeated incumbent U.S. Representative Joseph White, a Democrat, in the Congressional elections. Bingham began his second tenure in the House in March 1865, just weeks before Lincoln’s assassination. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton appointed Bingham to a three-member team that prosecuted the defendants on trial for conspiring to assassinate Lincoln. In December 1865, Republican leaders selected Bingham as one of nine congressmen to represent the House on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction. In January 1866, Bingham introduced a proposal that the United States Constitution be amended to establish that "The Congress shall have the power to make all laws necessary and proper to secure to all persons in every state within this Union equal protection in their rights of life, liberty and property." Bingham's proposal subsequently became the basis for the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was approved by Congress in June 1866 and ratified by the states in July 1868. On March 2, 1868, House members selected Bingham as one of seven "managers to conduct the impeachment against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, on the part of the House" Bingham chaired the committee of managers and presented the prosecution's closing, three-day summation in Johnson's trial before the Senate. In 1872 Bingham lost his bid for re-election to the House. In 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him as U.S. minister to Japan, a post he held until 1885. Bingham returned to Cadiz, Oho, where he was a vocal opponent of Jim Crow laws that were being enacted in the South. He died on March 19, 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05833
Subjects: Bingham, John Armor, 1815-1900; United States--Politics and government--1861-1865; United States--Politics and government--1865-1883; United States--Foreign relations--Japan; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
 

Description: This 1899 photograph shows John Armor Bingham (1815-1900), an influential political leader who served eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. In this image the elderly Bingham is sitting in a wicker rocking chair on a front step or porch of a brick building. He has a very large paper document folded and draped over his lap. Bingham was born in Mercer, Pennsylvania, in 1815. He studied at Franklin College, Ohio, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1840. He practice law in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and was the county's district attorney. He was elected to his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives as a member of the Opposition Party (34th Congress); thereafter he ran as a Republican and was elected to three more consecutive terms. He lost his bid for reelection in 1862. In 1864 President Abraham Lincoln appointed him as judge advocate of the Union Army with the rank of major. In 1865 he again was elected to the House of Representatives and served until 1873. After Lincoln's assassination, Bingham was appointed one of three special judge advocates in charge of the legal proceedings against the accused assassins. He also was appointed a manager of the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson in 1868. Bingham served as minister to Japan from 1873 to 1885. He died in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05860
Subjects: Bingham, John Armor, 1815-1900; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Constitutional history--United States; United States--Politics and government--1865-1883
 

Description: Caption on reverse reads: "Civil War monument of Major Henry Kaldenbaugh presented by him to Tuscarawas Co., comrades in the 51st Ohio Volunteer Infantry killed in action. New Philadelphia, O." This photograph shows the Civil War Monument presented by Major Henry Kaldenbaugh. In the background can be seen the World War I Doughboy memorial. Major Henry Kaldenbaugh served in the 51st infantry division in the Civil War, and left a bequest in his will for the construction of the monument to Union soldiers. The memorial is located on the corner of Broadway Street (Ohio Route 416) and High Avenue (Ohio Route 39) in New Philadelphia. Inscription reads: "Erected to my brave and gallant comrades of Tuscarawas County who fell in defense of our glorious Union, by a member of the 51st Ohio Vols. 1861 - 1865. Erected May 19, 1887. Presented by Major Henry Kaldenbaugh." Titled "Spirit of the American Doughboy" and "Copyrighted by E. M. Visquesney, Sculptor, Spencer, Indiana", this monument now stands in front of the Tuscarawas County Courthouse. It was erected in 1929 by the American Legion. The inscription reads: "In memory of the men and women of Tuscarawas County who served their country in the World War View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_056_1
Subjects: Monuments--Ohio; Memorials--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reconstruction of the first schoolhouse in Ohio at Schoenbrunn Village. The original school was built ca. 1772 in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The photograph was taken ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00415
Subjects: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Education
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Interior of reconstructed schoolhouse in Schoenbrunn Village, New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00611
Subjects: Delaware Indians -- History; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: An exterior view of the Tuscarawas Courthouse and the statue that is erected in front of the building. The building is located in in the town and county seat of New Philadelphia, taking it's name from the much more well known Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. While the town often experienced economic success because of it's advantageous location, it would eventually experience a downturn with the falling importance of it's main industries. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06752
Subjects: Tuscarawas County (Ohio); New Philadelphia (Ohio); Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio); Tuscarawas Courthouse (Ohio)
 

Description: An exterior view of the Tuscarawas Courthouse and the statue that is erected in front of the building. The building is located in in the town and county seat of New Philadelphia, taking it's name from the much more well known Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. While the town often experienced economic success because of it's advantageous location, it would eventually experience a downturn with the falling importance of it's main industries. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06753
Subjects: Tuscarawas County (Ohio); New Philadelphia (Ohio); Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio); Tuscarawas Courthouse (Ohio)
 

Description: An exterior view of the Tuscarawas Courthouse and the statue that is erected in front of the building. The building is located in in the town and county seat of New Philadelphia, taking it's name from the much more well known Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. While the town often experienced economic success because of it's advantageous location, it would eventually experience a downturn with the falling importance of it's main industries. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06754
Subjects: Tuscarawas County (Ohio); New Philadelphia (Ohio); Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio); Tuscarawas Courthouse (Ohio)
 

Description: New Philadelphia Post Office; Photo taken between 1935-1943. The New Philadelphia post office is a replica of Independence Hall. The business district of New Philadelphia was laid out as a replica of Philadelphia, PA. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F01_019
Subjects: Post Office--New Philadelphia--
Places: Tuscarawas County (Ohio); New Philadelphia (Ohio)
 

Description: The Photo is of downtown New Philadelphia. Several historic buildings are noticeable especially the County Courthouse near the center of the photo. Residents named the town after Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Once formed in 1804. One of the principal reasons for this quick growth was New Philadelphia's location on the Ohio and Erie Canal, making the community an important trading center. Over the next several decades, New Philadelphia's status as a trading and manufacturing center continued to expand, especially following the completion of two railroads through the community. In 2000, many of New Philadelphia's 17,056 residents worked in retail sales, although several also found employment in service industries, and a few people still worked in mining. Several residents commuted to Canton, in nearby Stark County, to find employment. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F02_013_001
Subjects: Historic buildings--Ohio--New Philadelphia--Pictorial works; New Philadelphia (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)